Eduardo Halfon
Eduardo Halfon (born August 20, 1971 in Guatemala City ) is a Guatemalan writer.
Life
Eduardo Halfon comes from a Jewish family, the grandfather of the protagonist Eduardo Halfon in the novel The Polish Boxer (2008) was a Łódź Jew who survived the Litzmannstadt ghetto , the Sachsenhausen concentration camp and the Auschwitz extermination camp . He grew up in Guatemala and emigrated to the USA with his parents when he was ten . He studied industrial engineering at North Carolina State University and then returned to Guatemala, where he taught literature at the Universidad Francisco Marroquín for eight years . He lives in Nebraska .
Halfon's first novel Esto no es una pipa, Saturno was published in 2003. The novel examines the suicide of the 23-year-old Guatemalan painter Carlos Valenti in 1912 from different perspectives. The book title alludes to a surrealistic image . Halfon received the José María de Pereda Prize for short prose in Santander for the book La pirueta . In the novel Mañana nunca lo hablamos , published in 2011, he describes a childhood in violent Guatemala in the 1970s.
Halfon received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2011 for further work on his book El boxeador polaco , which is written in ten rounds . Preparatory work for this was published under the same title in 2008 and further parts in 2010 under the title La pirueta .
The French translation ( Deuils ) of Duelo was awarded the Prix du Meilleur livre étranger in 2018 in the “Essay” category.
Works (selection)
- Esto no es una pipa, Saturno . Guatemala ciudad: Alfaguara, 2003
- De cabo roto . Barcelona: Littera, 2003
- El ángel literario . Barcelona: Editorial Anagrama 2004
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El boxeador polaco . Valencia: Pre-Textos, 2008
- The Polish boxer. Novel in ten rounds . Translated from the Spanish by Peter Kultzen and Luis Ruby . Munich: Hanser, 2014, ISBN 978-3-446-24599-0
- As paperback by dtv, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-423-14509-1
- Clases de hebreo . Logroño, La Rioja: AMG Editor, 2008
- Classes de dibujo . La Rioja: AMG, 2009
- La pirueta . Valencia: Pre-Textos, 2010
- Mañana nunca lo hablamos . Valencia: Pre-Textos, 2011
- Elocuencias de un tartamudo . Valencia: Pre-Textos, 2012
- Monasterio . Barcelona: Libros del Asteroide, 2014
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Signor Hoffman , Spanish a. German 2016
- Signor Hoffman . Novel. Translated from the Spanish by Luis Ruby. Munich: Hanser, 2016, ISBN 978-3-446-25275-2
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Duelo , Barcelona: Libros del Asteroide, 2017
- Duel . Novel. Translated from the Spanish by Luis Ruby. Munich: Hanser, 2019, ISBN 978-3-446-26372-7
Web links
- Literature by and about Eduardo Halfon in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Short biography and reviews of works by Eduardo Halfon at perlentaucher.de
- Eduardo Halfon , at Portland State University , 2010
- Eduardo Halfon. Es sólo literatura, con minúscula ... , interview with Prensa Libre , 2004
Individual evidence
- ↑ Marko Martin : Don't make a number out of it. Eduardo Halfon fleddert the history of his grandfather's concentration camp , review, in: Die literary Welt , January 24, 2015, p. 6
- ↑ Andreas Breitenstein: The Hour of True Invention , review, in: NZZ , 23 August 2014, p. 26
- ↑ a b Lucìa Corral: Eduardo Halfon at the Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin (ilb) 2014.
- ↑ Nadine Haas does not count Halfon with his works published up to 2010 as genuinely Guatemalan literature, see Nadine Haas: Das Ende der Fiktion: Literatur und urbane Kraft in Guatemala , Berlin: Lit, 2013. Zugl .: Hamburg, Univ., Diss., 2012, p. 111 f, fn. 85
- ↑ Eva-Christina Meier: "A child does not doubt what is being told" , interview with Eduardo Halfon, in: taz , November 25, 2014, p. 15.
- ↑ The Polish Boxer , Excerpt, Chapter 1
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Halfon, Eduardo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Guatemalan writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th August 1971 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Guatemala City |